“Now, that handsome sum of money, Pip, is your own. It is a present to you on this day, in earnest of your expectations. And at the rate of that handsome sum of money per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until the donor of the whole appears.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 36. Mr. Jaggers informs Pip that he has come into a large fortune and is to live off it until his mysterious benefactor reveals themselves. When Jaggers says “in earnest of your expectations” this is foreshadowing of better things to come for Pip.